Hello everyone! I just wrapped up my first semester of school here, so things have started to calm down for me. It was a wonderful treat to have an acceptance over at Hobble Creek Review (www.hobblecreekreview.net), where I have two poems published in their current issue (Issue 1, Vol. 6)! Click on over to read them, and let me know what you think!
Happy Valentine's Day, everybody!
Snow day
It's been a dry winter here for us, and yesterday we had our first snow of the season. It wasn't too much yesterday, but it's been coming down hard all morning today!
*Edit: These were taken around 11 a.m. It's gotten so much more snowy since (and precarious to drive!).
*Edit: These were taken around 11 a.m. It's gotten so much more snowy since (and precarious to drive!).
2012
i.
tiptoe forward,
reaching through the dark --
ii.
we light up the sky
but we can't see ahead.
I hope the new year surprises you in all sorts of wonderful ways. Happy New Year!
tiptoe forward,
reaching through the dark --
ii.
we light up the sky
but we can't see ahead.
I hope the new year surprises you in all sorts of wonderful ways. Happy New Year!
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
On Consumer Technology
The feeling of productivity, to some, is exhilarating. I am unashamedly one of those people. And because doing one thing at a time is not good enough, we've redefined the concept of multitasking.
Now you can chat with a friend, catch up on the news, and write your English essay all at the same time. Why bother flying to visit relatives when you can save time (and money) by Skyping?
Not to mention all the new verbs that have stemmed out of this new technology. Nowadays, we can Skype, Google, IM, text, and Tweet. And it is a testament to the rapid growth of the young technology industry -- one that has been around for only 50 or so years -- that terms like "IM" and "GameBoy" have already gone out of vogue, and companies like MySpace have crashed and burned in a matter of a few short years.
Things move fast in the Internet world. News travels at the speed of light. If you're not enlightened within a few hours, you're already behind. The world is starting to run on "Internet time."
Multitasking is the new modus vivendi. If your brain isn't wired to move a million miles an hour and juggle five different things at once, life in modern society is going to be tough for you.
For our generation, that's life going on as normal. The idea of a world without iPods and iPads, video games and smartphones, Windows and Xbox is an unfathomable, archaic one. To me, there's no better indication of the frightening power of technology that, when we lost our power in December 2006 to a storm, we were utterly lost and bored without our computers and cell phones. After all, what is there to life if you don't know what every one of your friends is doing every second of the day?
Now you can chat with a friend, catch up on the news, and write your English essay all at the same time. Why bother flying to visit relatives when you can save time (and money) by Skyping?
Not to mention all the new verbs that have stemmed out of this new technology. Nowadays, we can Skype, Google, IM, text, and Tweet. And it is a testament to the rapid growth of the young technology industry -- one that has been around for only 50 or so years -- that terms like "IM" and "GameBoy" have already gone out of vogue, and companies like MySpace have crashed and burned in a matter of a few short years.
Things move fast in the Internet world. News travels at the speed of light. If you're not enlightened within a few hours, you're already behind. The world is starting to run on "Internet time."
Multitasking is the new modus vivendi. If your brain isn't wired to move a million miles an hour and juggle five different things at once, life in modern society is going to be tough for you.
For our generation, that's life going on as normal. The idea of a world without iPods and iPads, video games and smartphones, Windows and Xbox is an unfathomable, archaic one. To me, there's no better indication of the frightening power of technology that, when we lost our power in December 2006 to a storm, we were utterly lost and bored without our computers and cell phones. After all, what is there to life if you don't know what every one of your friends is doing every second of the day?
November PAD Challenge!
Hello poem-ers!
I completely forgot about the November Poem-a-Day Challenge until I happened to visit Poetic Asides and realized that it was in full swing. So I've jumped on the bandwagon!
I won't be posting my poems here because I won't be able to submit them to journals, magazines, and the like, but I would encourage everyone to jump in headfirst. (Especially if you didn't do the poem-a-day challenge in April or weren't pleased with your April results.)
I must say, although both of my poems thus far have been about the Halloween aftermath, it has still been very fun getting back into the swing of writing a poem a day for a month. Do come and join in!
I completely forgot about the November Poem-a-Day Challenge until I happened to visit Poetic Asides and realized that it was in full swing. So I've jumped on the bandwagon!
I won't be posting my poems here because I won't be able to submit them to journals, magazines, and the like, but I would encourage everyone to jump in headfirst. (Especially if you didn't do the poem-a-day challenge in April or weren't pleased with your April results.)
I must say, although both of my poems thus far have been about the Halloween aftermath, it has still been very fun getting back into the swing of writing a poem a day for a month. Do come and join in!
Poetry in Letterpress
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